Favre - 'The Comeback Kid'
Brett's updated stats include passing for 65,127 yards over 18
seasons with 464 TD passes
'Kid' yes, because to someone 20 years older, Brett Favre
is still young and vital. He’d have to be young to take another 30
sacks from big defensive players this season and finish the season
standing!
He's considered "old" for professional football of course, most
guys retire much younger. But Brett Favre isn’t your regular
NFL quarterback, he’s The Comeback Kid!
Brett gave us another dimension to look forward
to on football weekends. Sure you could watch your home team on TV,
but were the Jets going to be on? I found myself tuning in to
Jets games whenever
I could. It’s so much fun to watch him play the quarterback position, because he
is obviously having so much fun doing it. He said it best after his last game of the 2008
season....
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“I love to compete…. There’s way more to this game than
first ball statistics, and I can sit here and say that because I have
all the good ones and all the bad ones. But the memories you make in
the locker room, and bus trips, and plane rides and all that stuff,
practices, you know, they can’t keep stats for that.” Brett
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If suiting-up on Sundays will continue to be fun for Favre remains
to be seen, and that should be the main part of his decision on
whether to retire. No one wants to face repeated surgeries in order to play, or
life-long debilitation from another season of football injuries.
Although the Jets didn’t reach the playoffs this year,
The Comeback Kid had a very positive impact on the team’s season,
converting a losing 2007 season (4-12) into a winning season (9-7) in
2008. Brett Favre is still a Winner.
Brett’s “extended play” was exciting for his
fans. He added another superb season (up to 18 now) and other impressive stats to
his lifetime stats listed in my blog earlier this year -
Passion Play.
Chalk up another 3,472 passing yards and 22 touchdown passes for
The Comeback Kid!
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